Every Friday for the last couple of months, Will Dallimore has been posting short comedy films on his youtube channel and on The Badsey Society’s Facebook page, showing what he and brother, John, have been up to in lockdown in their back garden in Horsebridge Avenue. The subject of most of their films has been slapstick comedy with a circus theme running through it.
Edward Pethard was a wheelwright and carpenter who spent his entire working life in Wickhamford.
The death of Roger Savory in America two months ago, at the age of 90, has just come to our attention.
The wedding was solemnised at St Andrew’s Church, Hampton, on Saturday, of Miss Iris Annie Smith, youngest daughter of Mr & Mrs G A Smith of 4 Church Road, Hampton, and Private Charles William Haines, only son of Mr & Mrs Albert George Haines of 7 Synehurst Avenue, Badsey.
A pretty wedding took place at St Leonard’s Church, Bretforton last Saturday, the contracting parties being Miss Ada Maud Smith, eldest daughter of Mr & Mrs George A Smith of Goldthorne, Weston Road, Bretforton, and Mr John William Frederick Hartwell, second son of Mr & Mrs John Hartwell of Brewers Lane, Badsey.
Mrs H Jinks, of 14 Waterside, Evesham, has received official notification from the War Office that her son by a first marriage, Corporal Norman Hall, was wounded while on active service last month.
Corporal Hall, who is 21, was born at Badsey and he attended Cleeve Prior C of E School. He was also a member of the choir at Cleeve Prior Church. When quite a small boy he made up his mind to embark on a military career and, two years before the war, he joined the 9th Lancers.
Sanitary and Building Plans Committee, Evesham Rural District Council
The Committee recommended acceding to the request of the Badsey Parish Council for sanction to erect a drinking trough on the site of the old village pump, and to allow a water service to the fountain provided that the Council appointed someone to see that the water was not wasted.
